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When analysing political affiliation or geographic location, we need to exercise a certain amount of flexibility: families could move about, and individual members could range over great distances. The situation is not dissimilar with status: family fortunes can change between generations; or, not all sons of kings or counts became kings or counts themselves; while in early mediaeval Ireland, for example, clerical dynasties developed often offshoots of local secular dynasties with abbatial succession passing from father to son.

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